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QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 05:51 PM) We need to let this thread die, the other GMs are reading this!! Then hopefully they've also seen how he's responded to this benching with 2 solid days with bats.

QUOTE (Eminor3rd @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 04:51 PM) The problem with this is that Castellanos is too much for Reed, but the Tigers don't have anything else that's worth him. If the White Sox don't get "too much" back for Addison Reed, who is young, effective, and years away from being expensive, then there's zero reason to trade him. If Reed is traded, people should say "man, why did that team give up that prospect for a closer". If that's not the reaction, then Reed should not be traded.

The bullpen didn't allow a hit. Great catch by Wells. Good hitting work by Rios, Alexei, Dunn.

Great catch wells.

QUOTE (Noonskadoodle @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 04:08 PM) How they are in first I have no idea. Every time I watch them they remind me of the Sox. Homer or nothing...SOlid starting pitching....Skiddish D at times. Sit around and compare those 2 lineups for a second and then realize that their current lineup is missing 2 outfielders. They're hitting the ball like crazy.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 04:00 PM) Yep, and it's not like you can use Flowers against tough righties to help out Phegley. If we just throw caution to the wind and trade everyone away this year, I'd actually be interested in seeing whether we could develop something useful by using a rotation of Dunn, Flowers, and Wilkins at 1b. Flowers still has big power in his game that he isn't really showing right now at the rate he might be able to someday. (Obviously that is not a roster set up to be competitive next year, but we might be able to get something out of those guys).

QUOTE (almagest @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:52 PM) I think he'd be okay as a backup, considering what we've gotten from our backups in the past few years. The problem is...since they're both right handed, it'll be really tempting to over-play Phegley if those are the only 2 catching options.

Uh-oh, trainer out to look at Quintana.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:35 PM) Why? You agreed with me saying they dont really do anything. I mean most of us are OK with that because we grasp the point that the reason the dollar menu exists (the only reason to ever eat at McDonald's by the way) is because the worthless employees aren't paid much. But take away the low-wage employees and the dollar menu goes with it, so now we expect something more than the bare minimum from McDonalds, and those expectations are unlikely to ever be met. H. Christ, you think that's the "reason the dollar menu exists"? The dollar menu exists because it's a major profit-center and also draws people in through the doors. If they really don't do anything, then paying the better ones more and reducing staffing by 10% would be a solid move that would improve service and the product overall.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:32 PM) I don't think Hawk ever meant for a complete disavowal of advanced statistics, but merely what he said: "they are the most overrated thing in baseball." They probably are, at least in some circles. Still can't remember him ever quoting advanced defensive stats before.

HAWK JUST QUOTED UZR AND DRS

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:25 PM) So you think they should all be paid more? Fast food workers? Yes. And for god's sake provided with health care and sick days, because "guy making food with the flu because they have no health insurance or sick days" would be about the stupidest thing ever if we weren't doing so already. As it's been noted many times, with adjustments for inflation, the minimum wage in the 60's and 70's was more than $5 an hour higher than the current point.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:17 PM) Next time you go into the lobby of your run-of-the-mill chain fast food joint watch the employees. They just kind of mope around, haphazardly throwing together sandwiches they (nor the customer) really care about. They socialize while ignoring customers at the register, fiddle with the machines... they dont really care. I dont really care either, so its not like I'm offended when I'm buying that garbage. The only way you could really think they work hard is if you're completely foreign to the idea of physical labor and think anyone who does it in even the slightest capacity must be working hard. Sounds like every business I've ever walked into.

QUOTE (scs787 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:17 PM) Yes AJ dogged it quite a bit. As do a lot of major leaguers when the hit a hard hit ground ball to the SS. Heck, there's the one infamous time that he even pissed Ozzie off by having all the TV's on college football after a loss late in a season.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:11 PM) I'd want four can't-miss prospects and one or two of them really really really great players to give Detroit an automatic division title and likely WS like that. LOL, an "automatic division title and likely WS" from trading for a closer? You're joking right, you have to know more about baseball than that.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 03:05 PM) Well many of them are seeing enough welfare to count as a second job, and since working fast food is about the easiest job in the country (next to working for the government) why do anything better? Its much easier to b****, moan and protest about how "WE IS TREETED UNFAIRLEY JUS CUZ WE GOT NO HI SKOOL EDUCASHUN" than it is to do the minimal work necessary to better yourself enough to be liberated from a life of working at McDonalds. Minimum wage is for minimum people. That's the harsh truth, and the absolute worst our society has to offer are not entitled to considerations from the rest of us. LOL The pathetic thing is I'm sure you not only believe that, but that others do also.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 02:54 PM) I think it'd be wrong to trade him to the Tigers. Just find a team in another division to deal him to if the Sox have to move him. We don't "have to move him" by any stretch of the imagination. The only good reason to move him is if some team offers a ton for him, so much so that it would be dumb to say no. The Tigers are one team we could conceive of doing that.

QUOTE (CaliSoxFanViaSWside @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 02:50 PM) Hate to see Phegley with the day off after a 3/4 day and lefty out there . Oh come on man, he's a catcher. Giving the catcher the 3rd game of a series off is generally the norm, and ought to be especially important for a guy with Phegley's health history.

Good pick on the DP by Morel today, and good job by Quintana on Upton.

QUOTE (fathom @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 02:13 PM) or Garcia Not enough.

Castellanos + a couple talented low-level guys.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jul 21, 2013 -> 01:51 PM) I miss the early 1900s too. If my 8 year old doesn't work 40 hours, how will they ever learn the importance of hard work? Teach a man to fish, you know.

QUOTE (Y2JImmy0 @ Jul 20, 2013 -> 10:41 PM) Any chance Wilkins is a September call-up? Maybe PK goes to a contender in August and they call him up? Or should they just wait? If either Dunn or Konerko are moved I'd say yes. If they're not, I'd say no. No reason to burn a 40 man spot on him unless the spot actually opens up.

QUOTE (Buehrle>Wood @ Jul 20, 2013 -> 07:48 PM) Man of Steel 2 will have Batman in it Since Bale says he has no interest...."Yawn".

QUOTE (Benchwarmerjim @ Jul 20, 2013 -> 10:14 PM) the Tribe's defense has cost them the first two games against the Twins. Friday night, 1B man Nick Swisher had a ball clang off his glove on a routine throw tonight, Joe Mauer ran home on a contact play only to have the 3B dude miss the catcher by about 30 feet to the right, ball goes in the dugout and runners move up another base. embarrassing. WELCOME TO THE PARTY!